Conquering OtherWorld Starts With a Game Chapter 6: You're A Skeleton Too

Bilibili content creator, Vanilla Pudding, whose real name was Qin Guan, was a small-time influencer with slight acclaim in the gaming community. However, he didn't have a single video exceeding 50,000 views and had yet to gain 100,000 subscribers.

Having less than 100,000 subscribers meant that Qin Guan couldn't earn much, and the incentive bonus from the number of video clicks wasn't enough to put food on the table. Therefore, in order to make ends meet, besides making videos and live streaming, Qin Guan also did part-time work as a substitute power leveler and gold farmer.

Although being a self-media influencer was widely considered the easiest job in society, Qin Guan lived a life harder than a corporate slave.

A week ago, on a certain black market… uh, forum for gold farmers, Qin Guan saw a promotional post by an anonymous user who had registered a Level 1 account. As he was feeling upset over an account of his being banned, Qin Guan made fun of the post as well as the original poster for trying to pretend it to be a third-person's recommendation. Then, he clicked on the official website link posted by this clearly alternate account.

Despite the website's shabby interface and the rather questionable "Independent VR game" slogan, Qin Guan was hooked by the three promotional videos.

Especially the final "Undead NPC Combat Demo" video, where a zombie in tattered armor and wielding a gigantic axe chopped down a tree with stunning realism. Whether it was the graphics, physics engine, and interactive collisions, all of it gave Qin Guan goosebumps and made his blood boil.

And then… When he saw the VR headset's 188 yuan material cost, Qin Guan immediately calmed down.

Not because it was too expensive, but because it was way too cheap.

He was a gaming content creator after all and had some common sense. VR devices on the market could easily cost upward of 10,000 yuan. How could a VR headset that only cost 188 yuan claim to be a black technology game that could beat all VR games on the market?

How utterly ridic

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